Saturday, September 30, 2006

"See and hear yourself on the stories that matter to you. Using your cellphone, webcam, or video camera send us your videos and have them shown on ABC News Now. We don't guarentee to publish all of them, but we will watch all videos sent to us. If your submission is chosen you'll appear on ABC News Now."

Friday, September 29, 2006

"'Duration is the best paint I've ever used on the exterior of a house - period,' Cooper says. 'It flows well and goes on thick. It remains flexible and absolutely resists peeling. We did a home in Lakewood, Ohio, that was having major peeling problems six months to a year after every paint job. We painted it with Duration with our normal surface prep and it hasn't peeled two years later. Anytime I do an exterior job, I spec Duration.'"

We're painting our house which has been stained for approximately 100 years.

Stain is great since it never peels. We are considering using Sherwin-Williams Duration Paint. It's also never supposed to peel, having a lifetime guarantee against peeling.

This site is an open-source service of the Media Giraffe Project at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a non-partisan research effort. We bring together professional and citizen journalists, multimedia technologies, political strategists and educat

Boston Media Makers is a group of local video producers, video bloggers, podcasters, artists, and creative people who want to get together and share what they are doing over coffee on a Sunday morning.

On October 1st, John Herman is going to tell us about his new realtime live movie making improv project, and then we are going to make a movie!

The answer, I think, is in creating a platform where there is relevance for communities. I was talking with a friend recently who put it simply. "Yahoo! groups are a core asset of the company" yet he did not understand why they do not leverage that community to build content channels! Examples abound, a special interest group for instance can share content and mash it up. And that would make it a better targeted group for adverts....

This is a very good point. The Yahoo! videoblogging group is over 3,000 people who exchange ideas in the forum, but don't utilize other parts of the Yahhoo! enviromnent. Whith Yahoo's recent acquisition of JumpCut, maybe there can be som synergy there.

Have you used JumpCut?

How do you feel about editing video online?

Do you prefer computer based editing tools like iMove, Windows Movie Maker and advanced tools like Final Cut Pro?

Nokia is letting me keep the N93 that they had sent me for a two week trial. Now I've got to decide how to get some cell service on it.

I heard a lot about cell service while in NYC at the Nokia event this weekend. It's messed up. Over in Europe and all over the world cell phone service is different. The phones have little chips in them that let you move your account between phones very easily.

Verizon does not have that. They lock you in. It's funny. When you think about getting cell service, in your mind you think about who has the best coverage. Those Verizon ads work really well. I've actually had excellent service and support from Verizon. The only place I can't get coverage from them in the Boston area is over at WZBC at Boston College.

So with the cell phne chips, you can drop your phone # into any phone you might have in your drawer. This is pretty cool.

So right now I have a Motorola Razr, and now, the Nokia N93. I'd like to be able to drop my phone # into the N93 but can't.

I've got to use a carrier that allows the use of these portable chips. That's either T-Mobile or Cingular. Each of these companies seems to have a plan that costs nothing per month. They only charge per call. That seems like a good idea for the time being. I'll just forward my cell phone over.So what's your experience with T-Mobile and Cingular in New England, especially the Boston area?

"Millie Garfield of Delray Beach, Florida is a mere 81 year old, and reflects on her age as well. Her most recent post offers tips on how to stay young. “Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down,” she recommends, and also advises, “Keep learning.” “Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. An idle mind is the devil's workshop. The devil's name is Alzheimer's,” she adds.

Millie also blogs with thoughts on other subjects, ranging from widowhood, to cooking, to pop culture. "

"Many of Revision3’s performers and producers, including Mr. Rose and Mr. Albrecht, gained experience on the cable television channel TechTV, so they come to the shows with production skills.

That puts the company on the leading edge of a shift in Internet video from user-generated clips to “a more controlled environment,” said Allen Weiner, a research director at the market research firm Gartner.

Mr. Weiner predicted that the popularity of this kind of programming would surge in the next few months. Whether it will turn into an enduring form of entertainment, let alone a profitable one, is an open question. “Let’s face it, this is an experiment in progress,” Mr. Weiner said."

With $1 million in finaincing Jay Adelson and Kevin Rose are turning Revision3 Corporation into an Internet video production firm.

This is front page news in today's New York Times Business Day section.

Stay tuned for more.

There are going to be internet TV networks created that don't require $1 million dollars.

"If you love sharing photos like we do, you'll love Scrapblog. With Scrapblog, you can easily create stunning multimedia scrapbooks featuring your photos, videos, audio and a bunch of creative elements. We made Scrapblog drag-and-drop-easy so that everyone can tell their stories and share them online or turn them into high-quality photo books and DVDs. Best of all, it's free and there's nothing to download."

Saturday, September 23, 2006

BOSTON –Saturday, September 23, 2006– The following is a statement from Richard Chacón, Communications Director and Deputy Campaign Manager for the Deval Patrick Campaign, in response to Kerry Healey’s recently released negative ad:

“For 18 months, Deval Patrick has been bringing voters together with his vision for change on Beacon Hill and a fresh start for Massachusetts. Now comes Kerry Healey’s negative attack, which is the typical politics-as-usual that people want to change – something made clear by last Tuesday’s decisive Democratic Primary victory. It's not surprising that she would air her negative ad on the same day the latest poll has her trailing badly. This will be a close race, but the growing strength of Deval Patrick's grassroots message is what appeals to voters, not campaigns by insults and distortions.”

"Terry and the Boston Water and Sewer Downspout Disconnection team came over and disconnected all my downspouts from discharging into the sewer system."

This was a program to keep downspout run off from going into the sewer system.

I had a plumber in today to check on a leak, and he noticed the cast iron pipes in the basement. He asked if water was running through them and I told him, no, they were sealed off by the Sewer department.

He took a quick look and told me that it looks like the pipes WERE sending water to the storm water system and NOT the sewer system.

He said I should have asked the sewer department to do a dye test first to see if my downspout runoff was going into the sewer system. They didn't.

He said it's obvious from looking at the pipes that they are seperate.

Now we get ice skating rinks forming in our driveway and sodeway whenever it rains in the winter. It's horrible.

Now I have to contact the sewer department to get them to come out and confirm that my downspouts can be reconnected.

"Vlogging, thats right this week The Clip Show, reviews some of our favorite Vlogs. Not only will we be reviewing some of the best of the web, Josh Leo, Steve Garfield and Rusted Gate. The host of The Clip Show, Jim Kirks, takes us inside his head with his very own vlog. You thought you had fun the last time you watch The Clip Show, you havent seen anything, till you seen Episode 10, The Clip Show Vlogging style! "

"When Lieutenant Governor Kerry M. Healey unveiled a list Wednesday of 50 big ideas she'd pursue as governor, there at number 44 was creating a cellphone parking lot at the airport. About 30 US airports have such lots, where motorists awaiting an arriving passenger can park for free, then drive to the terminal curb after their party has arrived and called them.

``Just about everyone who has headed over to Logan Airport,' Healey said, ``has a story about endlessly circling the terminal while waiting to pick up a passenger' whose flight or bags were delayed. That creates not only hassles but congestion and potential security risks, Healey said."

This is a great idea.

I went to Logan Airport last night to pick up some family members. The flight got in at 9:10 and their luggage arrived at 10:10. That's AirTran for you. The luggage was on another filght! Probably had a connection.

So I went over to Terminal C to wait, but there is no place over there to wait. State Police move you along and make you leave. If you pull up to the far right hand side, heading to the next termainal, that's not a safe place either. The State Police make you move from that area too. I circled around the airport again and settled in at Terminal B where I wasn't bothered.

Lot's of times if I'm early, I just park in a garage.

And don't get me started on no free WiFi at Logan. Also a mess. Is that on Kerry Healy's list? Unfortunatley her list in in some type of embedded web page. It should be on an easy to read text page. Why make me click 50 times to find something.

"It wasn't much of a last meal. A focused and determined Josh Wolf and I shared some cheap fish and Japanese beer at a restaurant popular with broke NYU students near Washington Square Park Monday night. In town for a meeting with the newest member of his legal team, the First Amendment giant Martin Garbus, the embattled videoblogger was in a surprisingly constrained mood considering the circumstances."

If you haven't been following the Josh Wolf story, Anthony Lappe has written a good article about it.

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"Manhattan Story Mashup is an urban game, taking place on September 23rd 2006 in Manhattan, New York City. During the event, approximately 250 players will move around Manhattan, taking photos which match a given target. Targets are words from stories, written by you and other visitors on this web site collaboratively while the game goes on. The resulting illustrated stories are shown on large public signs in Times Square in real-time and on this web site."

"This is an excerpt from a message written by Alive in Baghdad’s Brian Conley, posted to the Yahoo Videoblogging Group this morning."

"It’s with a pretty heavy heart that I am forced to inform everyone out there of the death of Alaa Adel, assistant to Isam Rasheed, one of our main 'videobloggers' or 'correspondents' based in Baghdad. Alaa seems to have been an integral, if mostly invisible piece of Alive in Baghdad through his work supporting Isam in gathering video and information about the situation around Baghdad.

He was killed on September 15th when he was apparently shot in the head by a US soldier, on his way to work at Isam’s home…

SACRAMENTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 18, 2006--Stressing the need for small and medium-sized producers to gain access to the Massachusetts wine market in order to compete and thrive, Family Winemakers of California filed a lawsuit in United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts on September 18 seeking to invalidate certain provisions of Massachusetts' recently enacted direct wine shipping permit law. "Small producers are telling the court that the law violates the Constitution. We are one national market. But the Massachusetts law is blatantly discriminatory. It aims to protect Bay State wineries, but prevents Massachusetts consumers from having unfettered choice," said Paul Kronenberg, FWC President. "Last year, the Supreme Court told Michigan and New York to stop the discrimination. But the Massachusetts legislators have chosen to ignore the Court's message that we are one national economic market. State laws that protect and perpetuate a wholesaler monopoly at the expense of wineries seeking market opportunities and consumers seeking a wider choice in wine, run counter to the concept of free trade within the nation."

The lawsuit asserts that Section 19F replaces Massachusetts laws that this Court previously declared to be unconstitutional with a subtler but equally unconstitutional form of discrimination. Rather than limiting wine shipping rights through express residency requirements, Section 19F limits wine shipping rights based on wineries' total annual production of wine and existing relationships with Massachusetts-licensed wholesalers. In purpose and effect, the limits imposed by these capacity caps fall solely upon out-of-state wineries, whereas Massachusetts wineries continue to enjoy unfettered access to the Massachusetts market.

I had a blast covering the recent VON conference in Boston for Rocketboom.

It was fun was meeting the people from TiVi including technical director Renars Jeromans. The live broadcast of video from a cell phone is still in development. They expect it to be out in a month or so.

"Gone are the days when I need a show picker at ABC to tell me what I should be watching. Instead, I might want to see what Steve Garfield is watching this week... or my cousin... or some random truant on MySpace."

Check it out and join the discussion.

Justin has some thought provoking things to says and I just want to join the Borg.

WGBH Lab has opened up a Video Sandbox -- an "open-content initiative" that allows users to access and use WGBH owned video clips for non-commercial use. Or as they say on the site, "Watch and download free video clips selected from the WGBH Media Libr

"JPG is not just another photo sharing site - it's a community that's come together to create a photo magazine."

Isn't that a cool idea?

Joining a magazine?

We enjoy media when it enterains and informs us. Now there is is a third thing it can do, let us belong.

At the recent PodCamp and VON, this theme of belonging has come to the fore. It's exciting.

Note:John Herman restated this emerging theme in his talk at PodCamp after hearing it in a session. Andrew Baron talked about it at VON. Can someone tell me who first brought it up in a podcamp session?

Yup. Andrew was talking about what people came to vlogs/podcasts for. He suggested there were two reasons: information and entertainment. He then asked the audience if there was anything other reasons. I chimed in with belonging.

I think a lot of the resonance we're seeing with Web 2.0 comes from how people feel connected with others who interact with the same material. You see this in Del.icio.us, Flickr, Rocketboom's comments, zeFrank's wiki, and, as you mention, JPG's creation.

Sunday, September 17, 2006

"Ze Frank's daily video blog looks simple enough. In each installment of 'The Show' (zefrank.com/theshow), one of the most popular 'vlogs' on the Internet as ranked by technorati.com, the 34-year-old New Yorker riffs on airport delays, politicians' names and other topics. But what takes viewers a few minutes to watch, takes Frank nearly six hours to produce. Coming up with fresh material, he says, is a daily struggle."

It's be nice if the little text at the top, which provides links back to the creator, would be able to provide a permalink to the video you are watching so you could give feedback on that specific video.

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Steve is a Social Media Traveler. Companies, brands, and destinations send my wife and I on trips in hopes that we will publicly share our experiences via social media. Examples include opening festivities for the Hermitage Club and traveling with GMC to the Super Bowl. (Go Pats!) We are available for more branded experience trips.